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World Wide Web News

an irregular gathering of web stuff by...
/ Alan Levine / Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction /

MCLI Server

	http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/

Keeping up with What's New

• NCSA What's New Page: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/whats-new.html
  Always popular and they have spiffed up the interface.
• The University of Geneva search page is reasonable in response time and it searches a wide range of sources: http://cui_www.unige.ch/w3catalog
• Net-Happenings Listserv:
  My personal favorite with, even coverage of WWW, Gopher, Listserv, and other announcements plus the Internet Scout report. You could subscribe by.....
  1. send e-mail to: majordomo@is.internic.net
  2. leave the subject blank
  3. in the body of the message, type:
     subscribe net-happenings
  As an alternative, try the news group "comp.internet.net-happenings"; not all of us have access to news groups via Mosaic and NetScape, but by using the A1 access (via lynx) you can find this group by entering:

  	g news:comp.internet.net-happenings
  

  You can also search the Net_hapenings archives of this list at:
  • http://www.mid.net/NET/
  • http://www.internic.net/htbin/search-net-happenings
  • http://www-iub.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/nethaps/
• MidNet provides Web pages for searching the Gopher Jewels archives: http://www.mid.net:80/GJEWEL/
• NetScape listserv: netscape@irlearn.ucd.ie

  To join, send a mail message to listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie with no subject and the following one line message:

    subscribe netscape YOUR_FIRST_NAME YOUR_LAST_NAME
  

For the HTML aware...

	http://www.mcom.com/home.html
	

	http://www.asu.edu/
	

Here are some things to try:

• Varying Font Size:

       <font size=+N>X</font>xxxxxxxx

  where "N" is the increment above which to raise the font size, and "X" is the text affected.

• Variations on the hard rule <hr>
  The <hr> tag is used to draw a solid line between sections of a page. NetScape recognizes several modifers to this tag:

       <hr size=X width="ZZ%" align=value>

  where X is the vertical thickness- larger values produce a 3D-like shadow effect; ZZ is some percentage of the width of the page that the hard rule will occupy; and value of the align modifer may be "left" or "right".

Sites of Intrigue

• Franklin Institute Virtual Science Museum:
  http://sln.fi.edu
• Telecommunicated Educational Space Simulations Server maintained by the National Association of Space Simulating Educators (NASSE), is composed of a group of space science educators and members of the aerospace community involved in the use of classroom and school space simulators (including permanent, semi-permanent, and temporary simulators):
  http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Owlink/Lessons/Simulation/chris.html
• Dialog:
  http://www.dialog.com/
• Buena Vistas Pictures MoviePlex (Disney Studios):
  http://bvp.wdp/com/BVPM/MoovPlex.html
• The Awesome List (Thanks to Debbie Anderson, RSCC) Gathered here, from one Internet trainer's viewpoint, are the glory and grandeur of the Internet, the sine qua non of Cyberspace, the main characters in the evolving drama ... a hypertext document that journalists, trainers and speakers could use easily:
  http://www.clark.net/pub/journalism/awesome.html
• American Educational Research Association (AERA):
  http://www.asu.edu/aff/aera/home.html
• Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL):
  http://owl.trc.purdue.edu
• Training materials on the World Wide Web and Mosaic from the U.S. Geological Survey:
  http://info.er.usgs.gov:4444/train
• The Bible of Usenet:
  http://www.clark.net/pub/usenet-b/www/home.html
• Electronic Dictionary German-English (EDGE):
  http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/htbin/lt/lt2html
• 8 minute HTML Primer:
  http://web66.coled.umn.edu/Cookbook/HTML/MinutePrimer.html
• China News Digest:
  http://www.cnd.org/
• NetLink Server:
  http://netlink.wlu.edu:1020/
• Digital Media Research & Development Center:
  http://www.phlab.missouri.edu/HOMES/dmc_www/
• Le Louvre:
  http://sunsite.unc.edu/louvre/
• The Network Observer (TNO) is a free on-line newsletter about networks and democracy. Since January 1994, TNO has been one of the Internet's most respected sources for practical information, informed commentary, and a discerning selection of pointers to network resources:
  http://communication.ucsd.edu/pagre/tno.html
• Classroom Connect (MCLI receives the paper version in our library):
  http://success.net/webworld/CLC.htm
• Collection of resources that are useful to Internet trainers, as well as just about anyone else who is on the Net:
  http://www.brandonu.ca/~ennsnr/Resources/